After 15 years of work, scientists have successfully created a living cell that contains two unnatural DNA building blocks. The breakthrough brings us one step closer to being able to synthesize cells that can produce drugs on demand. It even opens t ...

The term "drongo" is sometimes used in Australia to mean dummy or halfwit. But the drongo is also a type of African bird that is certainly not dumb. A new study found that drongos can mimic the calls of 51 different species, which is impres ...

A common complaint about wrinkle-masking Botox is that recipients have difficulty displaying emotions on their faces. That side effect might be a good thing, however, for people with treatment-resistant depression.

For decades, the Nahmads, a family of art collectors, have played it safe. But now they’re branching out, gambling with riskier shows that challenge the Gagosians of the art world.

In a sliver of good economic news during an Indian election that is widely focused on economic growth, the World Bank announced in a report on Tuesday that India overtook Japan as the world’s third largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity ...

Mainstream accepted history tells us that on April 30, 1945, deep inside a Berlin bunker, the infamous Nazi leader Adolph Hitler took his own life and that of his wife Eva Braun. That piece of history is now being serious challenged, but not without ...

Tiny robots could help you heal. Acting as mini technicians, they could one day assemble medical devices inside the body. A veritable construction crew of micro-scale robots already exists, from worm-like bots that can move heavy loads to muscle-powe ...

One family, 2 cameras, 30 countries, 60 flights, 1000+ time lapse videos, 200,000+ images - almost 20 terabytes of data!

Chick-fil-A wants a healthier image to go along with its emblematic fried-chicken sandwiches. To that end, next week the country’s largest chicken chain by sales will replace its old chargrilled menu options with a new recipe used for three new items ...

The latest revelation from the Snowden trove of papers is that the NSA had hacked into servers belonging to Chinese telecommunications company Huawei. To the point that they were able to get ahold of source code to certain of the company’s products a ...

Now it’s a done deal: As we first reported two weeks ago, Disney has indeed bought Maker Studios, the YouTube network that generates 5.5 billion views a month, for $500 million. That number could swell up by another $450 million, depending on the way ...

Two years ago, California's two giant telecom companies and their Silicon Valley allies won passage of a law freeing phone-over-the-Internet calls from government regulation. The 2012 law was essential to the creation of high-tech products and s ...

AS I write this, I am under house arrest. I was detained at a rally in support of anti-Putin protesters who were jailed last month. In September, I ran for mayor of Moscow as a pro-reform, pro-democracy opposition candidate and received almost a thir ...

The sessions seem to have begun as a routine psychological assessment in late 1995, when El Chapo was lodged in Module III, Section I, Level A, Room 307, Bed B at Puente Grande prison in Mexico. A little-noticed section of the resulting psychological ...

Yesterday, a NASA test vehicle lifted off from the ground in Florida, flew freely through the air, and landed about 650 feet away. It landed, crucially, in the same position it launched—upright—and that makes it look kind of like a science fiction fi ...

A mysterious set of slides showing alien spacecraft have cropped up amid the trove of documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden - and ignited a frenzy of debate among internet UFO fans. The set of slides are part of a Powerpoint presenta ...

After days of heightening tensions and increasingly aggressive rhetoric, Russian president Vladimir Putin requested, and was promptly granted, authorisation to deploy Russian troops in Ukraine until the situation there had “normalised”. Yet, after fu ...

President Barack Obama said Friday that “there will be costs to any military intervention in Ukraine,” after Russian military forces reportedly entered that country’s Crimea region. “Any violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity wo ...

The 'free market' approach to care means seeing more patients in less time. We've lost the human connection in health reform

In almost any science-fiction scenario involving time-travel, the default action is to kill Hitler. As terrible a human being as he was, there are many reasons why this probably isn’t a good idea